Student Leaders &Organizations

Amid rising urban temperatures and growing environmental challenges, Shade Seekers, a nonprofit organization based around Dallas, Texas, is making strides to combat the urban heat island effect and promote sustainable living. Founded by passionate young environmentalists, Shade Seekers is dedicated to expanding green spaces through tree planting, rooftop gardening, and environmental education, fostering a more livable and sustainable community. Learn more about Shade Seekers and their numerous student intern positions and volunteering opportunities!

So Sweet Dessert Emporium is a Texas based dessert catering service that offers clients a wide variety of desserts as well as options to customize designs and themes. Founded by Shreya Talwar, the business has catered toward large birthday and wedding events in-state and out-of-state and overcome challenges uniquely faced by their niche. Learn more about how Shreya runs her business and manages the responsibilities on top of her busy student life!

UnityMind is a nonprofit organization committed to tackling mental health struggles and other life struggles faced by students and other people around the world today. With programs centralized on their app such as peer conferencing, life coaching, and real-time mood mapping, UnityMind approaches the issue with a complete and thorough mindset. With this requires also support. Learn more about UnityMind's mission and purpose and the numerous ways that students can take-up roles in the organization!

xoxo, IQ is a student creator and led blog and literacy forum that focuses on publishing creative writing pieces but also pieces on various fields of the humanities including linguistics, history, and more. Not only is it a way for readers to learn more, but also is a resource for new writers to become inspired and more experienced writers to find writing resources and competitive and scholarship opportunities relating to writing. Learn more to see xoxo, IQ's writing and resources!

EquityEdge Analysis is a consulting business founded and run by Sahil Gandhi, an avid and passionate trader himself. Noticing the common trends of people struggling with investments, Sahil devotes his passions to providing a service unparalleled by the hours of research he spends on analyzing and finding patterns in market trends. Learn more about how Sahil turned his passion into a business that thrives today with endless avenues of growth!

FormuLATTE is a business podcast that hosts notable and successful guest from top firms including managers, partners, and even CEOs and founders, to interview and ask about their experiences and business insights and advice for aspiring high school students. With FormuLATTE's recorded episodes, the hosts believe that the gap of sufficient business education in traditional modern high school education will begin to close. Learn more about FormuLATTE's episodes and the advice and insights you would receive by staying tune!

STEMpact NJ is a nonprofit organization hoping to spread inspiration and engagement in the STEM field for younger children in underprivileged and underfunded communities by fundraising for and delivering STEM projects kids. Through their approach, STEMpact NJ offers young students a highly hands-on and collaborative opportunity to build model STEM devices in groups and learn more about the technology behind it. Learn more about the process to fund and ship the kits to make the mission possible and other places where students may have a role!

The Worthy Works Foundation (WWF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that tackles two areas of neccessity in the local community: one being STEM education and the other being community service and charity. Unique, WWF approaches the education side with a strong hope for true learning and retention and to do this have hosted their own Hackathon and found sponsors for real monetary prizes. Their service side has commitment almost six dozen volunteers to events such as E-drives and beach cleanups. Learn more about how WWF tackles both STEM education and their Hackathon, as well as their commitment to communtiy!

The International Girls Ambition & Achievement Program is a nonprofit dedicated to empowering young women in business, STEM, and various other high school and professional careers they aspire to. Through community events that feature successful women in colliagte and professional ventures, GAAP hopes to be a source of inspiration and a reminder for all young and dreaming women that their potential is something they can achieve. Learn more about GAAP and see how you can join their efforts or see how GAAP can help you in your future ventures!

Curiosity Creators is a nonprofit that hopes to spread STEM education through innovative and interactive methods but more importantly stands for a message that hopes to flip the scenario and style around the classroom experience. Through their in-person workshops, not only does the team hope to create an enjoyable teaching experience around STEM, but also an environment for any academic endeavor to be cultivated and nurtured. Curiosity Creators is always looking for more areas to be able to have their workshop plans and hopes that more students will reach out about starting chapters in their local communities!

Cooly is a new and innovative business that ultimately aims to enhance the travel experience for all travelers. Specifically, Cooly provides a luggage transportation service that allows families to first send their suitcases to the airport from their homes, or vice versa, and worry less about keeping track of those items and their security. Learn more about how Cooly plans to work around obstacles and works to gather more partners!

CodePals is a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching STEM education, particularly in computer science and coding, to other students. With in-person sessions at the organization's local libraries and community centers, CodePals is dedicated to ensuring all students have a chance and guidance at their passions for computer science and coding. Learn more about how CodePals goes about their teaching and how they envision student involvement!

Ethical Mind is a nonprofit organization that advocates for responsible AI usage, particularly for generative AI in artistic and academic settings, just to name a few areas where the implications are vast. Through proactive legislative work with NJ senators, Ethical Mind's first project has been pushing educational leaders in New Jersey to implement guidelines and resources on AI usage to schools across NJ. Ethical Mind hopes to expand towards research, in-person events, and other activities with students to spread their mission. Learn more about what Ethical Mind does and how you can participate.

Learn2Build is a nonprofit that offers a unique opportunity to high school students: a high school specific hackathon competition. On top of their hackathon being geared for high school and new students in the tech field by placing no limits on project ideas, Learn2Build hopes to encourage and bring together like-minded individuals to collaborate and create. This is further extended especially towards indivudals without teammates as the Learn2Build works to pair and group singles into a tea. More so, Learn2Build offers resources from their numerous affiliates and sponsors. Learn more about Learn2Build's competition and its prizes but also about its expansion and networking efforts!

Callio Marketing is a marketing agency providing marketing services ranging from webpage design, graphic design, social media management, outreach, and more. While the agency works tirelessly to provide the best services to its clientele, Callio Marketing also works towards benefacting the local community's business, especially Latino businesses, that lack a social media or knowledge about the importance of an online presence for their businesses. Angie Tirado, its founder, has held numerous positions as a social media manage and served numerous cliente and would love for students to learn more about her service and to talk more about her business leadership experience!

CodeMarvels was a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching programming and code to young students interested in the field. Through consistent online session, but more importantly a strong tie to guidance and mentorship, CodeMarvels hopes that every student will have someone else to come to for help anytime through their endeavor. Learn more about how CodeMarvels teaches it content and goes about their mentorship!

The Bee Fund is a nonprofit organizations that reflects a model similar to a venture capital firm, however for seeding and starting up nonprofit organizations that high school and undergraduate students develop. Through pitch competitions judged and backed by professionals and graduate students, the Bee Fund offers a way for upcoming ideas to find grounding. The Bee Fund does more than funding and provides services that help up and coming nonprofits to develop their websites as well as AI tools their specific ideas can use. Learn more about the Bee Fund, how to participate in their pitch competitions, or gain a role as an intern in the organization!

IND Org. is a nonprofit organization working on a number of goals towards expanding access to education and educational resources to third-world countries and impoverished communities. Through their outreach efforts, they have taught English on top of their core STEM program and expanded their access by translating lessons and tailoring content towards the specific needs of different regions. The organization has an organized and centralized leadership with many leadership positions and many more for tutors and volunteers. The organization looks forward to expanding and encourages other students to learn more about their work and the opportunities they have!

EquiCareConnect is a nonprofit organization working towards one mission: to make healthcare a right, not a privilege, around the world. Through education, advocacy and hands-on work, EquiCareConnect aims to close the gap in healthcare access. Additionally, the organization offers high school students opportunities to join their team as a research intern, software development interns, and volunteer work. Learn more about the organization and what opportunities may be available!